William S. Holabird

William S. Holabird (1794-20 May 1855) was Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut (D) from 4 May 1842 to 1 May 1844 under Chauncey Fitch Cleveland, succeeding Charles Hawley and preceding Reuben Booth.

Biography
William S. Holabird was born in Canaan, Connecticut in 1794, and he ran two unsuccessful congressional campaigns in 1831 and 1833 as a Democratic Party candidate. In 1834, President Andrew Jackson appointed Holabird as US Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and he presented the government's case in United States v. The Amistad in 1841. From 1842 to 1844, he served as Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut under Chauncey Fitch Cleveland, and his former Amistad opposing counsel Roger Sherman Baldwin won the 1844 gubernatorial election. Holabird died in 1855.